Enhancing Low-Resolution Facial Images Using Error Back-Projection for Human Identification at a Distance

  • Authors:
  • Jeong-Seon Park;Seong-Whan Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • Korea University;Korea University

  • Venue:
  • ICPR '04 Proceedings of the Pattern Recognition, 17th International Conference on (ICPR'04) Volume 1 - Volume 01
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper proposes a new method of enhancing the resolution of low-resolution facial images using an error back-projection method based on a top-down learning. A face is represented by a linear combination of prototypes of shape and texture. With the shape and texture information about the pixels in a given low-resolution facial image, we can estimate optimal coefficients for a linear combination of prototypes of shape and those of texture by solving least square minimization. Then high-resolution facial image can be obtained by using the optimal coefficients for linear combination of the high-resolution prototypes. In addition, an error back-projection procedure is applied to improve the accuracy of resolution enhancement.